All sarod, an instrument for which there's no Western equivalent. I like to think of it as a high-class banjo.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 10:00am

1. (But first...)
Ragamalika (Medley of Ragas)
Ananda - voice, Jana Starling - clarinet, K. S. Mani - violin, Anand Bala - mrdangam [double-sided drum]
Ananda: Treasures
Tantra, TSMV9701
15:07
(...our raga guide, beginning with South Indian Shankarabharanam, which happens to share its interval structure with the Western major scale.)

2. Raga Sindhu Bhairavi (rec. 1955)
Ali Akbar Khan - sarod, Chatur Lal - tabla, Mr. Gore - tanpura
19:50
(Late morning raga. "Moods... are pathos and joy".)

3. Raga Hemant (rec. 1994)
Ali Akbar Khan - sarod, Zakir Hussain - tabla
24:32
(Springtime? or autumnal? raga expressing "peace, joy and hope". Hemant means "winter" in Sanskrit. Riddle me this: How is spring like fall?)

4. Raga Hindol-Hem (rec. 1994)
Ali Akbar Khan - sarod, Zakir Hussain - tabla
49:58
(Evening springtime raga. "Peace, pathos, joy and heroism". Pathos, as in appealing to the emotions, not the negative connotations that this word carries in English.)

Tracks 2-4
Ali Akbar Khan: Then & Now
Alam Madna Music Productions, CD-A 04201A/B
(The late Ustad Ali Akhbar Khan, sarod master and popularizer of Hindustani music in the West.)

Set #2 - 10:00am - 11:00am

5. Raga Malkauns (rec. 2001)
Devjyoti Bose - sarod, Sandeep Das - tabla
Devjyoti Bose: Devotion
Sense World Music, 003
64:17
(Late night raga "...just five notes: deep, peaceful and sublime..." Read more about this transformational raga in the show notes from January 27th. Malkauns is kinda spooky. The Raga Guide says "superstitious musicians describe it as a raga with supernatural powers, and some believe that it can attract evil spirits". But who said that personal growth was a walk in the park? Well, sometimes a walk in the park with the windchill at -40 will do you good.)